Man, 18, stabbed in neck on Sheridan Road

Wednesday

May 21, 2014 at 9:35 PM

PEORIA — An 18-year-old Peoria man told police he was stabbed in the neck by an unknown attacker Sunday afternoon.

The man was walking southbound in the 2100 block of North Sheridan Road about 4:20 p.m. Sunday when he was approached from behind by a man he didn’t know, according to the police report. The attacker stabbed the man without saying anything and fled westbound on Brons Avenue.

The victim was bleeding heavily from the neck wound, but a paramedic had stopped the bleeding by the time police arrived. They found the blade of what appeared to be a kitchen knife on the sidewalk surrounded by blood.